Sound Off for Dec. 30, 2012

Obama does NOT want a agreement that would dramatically cut spending and modestly increase taxes. Obama has not made one reasonable proposal to avert catastrophe, he has made demands that are unreasonable, unsustainable and does nothing to fix the problem. Obama knows that his demands will not be acceptable to the majority of Americans or the Republican House and Senate. Obama is perfectly willing to see the U.S. economy crash and burn if he does not get his way to redistribute wealth the way he wants, a terrifying plan indeed !

The French high court has delivered a hard hitting smack down to Socialist French President Hollande over his scheme to hit the wealthy with a 75 percent tax. If only the U.S. Supreme Court has the same kind of common sense/courage America would be a much better place.

The Obama led Democrats have frivolously spent TRILLIONS of tax payer dollars and are responsible for the current cliff walk. How dare Obama and the democrats burden our children and grandchildren with unimaginable debt and then blame the Republicans and demand they give into even more crushing debt. Republicans unanimously voted NO to all the wasteful Obama spending schemes. The democrats spend the money, it's their problem.

Take a ride on the Wayback Machine to 1997. Congress addresses runaway Medicare costs by limiting the payment increases to doctors to no more than the growth of the economy as a whole. Ah, price controls, did not work for Nixon but hey this was 1997 - they knew better.

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Rather than stick to the law they passed, Congress then began a process of delaying the implementation of these cuts. Time after time, Congress decided to not implement the price controls. The "doc fix" was born. And delivered by both parties.

Fast forward to today. The fiscal cliff proposal now on the table (Plan C, D, whatever) does not include a doc fix. So Medicare payments to doctors will be cut by 27.4% on Jan 1. That is the accumulated impact going all the way back to 1997. Now old folks are fearful that if they get sick, will they be able to get care? (Genec - this may include you - but it's okay right?) Too bad Obama did not think enough to protect the elderly in his proposal. His proposal is now pushing granny off the cliff.

Why not a permanent fix? Well, it would cost 300-400 billion to implement. By 2014, that's 600 billion. That's another Obamacare size bill. No doubt we'll get around to another patch rather than address the out of control spending that persists in this country.

I think I'm going to be sick.

Remember the Second Amendment was not created with hunting deer in mind. The Second Amendment was created for the purpose of the citizen to protect themselves from an organized militia(government). Also take into consideration our Founding Fathers just fought a war to liberate themselves from tyranny and knew the cost of freedom , what it would take for the citizen to ensure this would not happen again.

Don't forget that our Constitution also protects the citizen from our own Military. The Military is not to be used as a police force against the citizen. Also no other Military force is allowed to be on U.S. soil. Taking that into consideration you can be thankful our Founding Fathers had enough foreknowledge to place these provisions in the Constitution for your freedom and protection.

Please don't allow the media or others to mislead you to believe the Second Amendment is about hunting. The push right now is to remove these so-called "assault rifles" from the citizens hands so when the organized militia starts going door to door to round people up the citizen will have a difficult time defending themselves with a six shooter and a single shot reload rifle.